EoghanIRL wrote: » There is no way you can be working efficiently in a clinic environment after a 50 hour shift.
swpb wrote: » currently working 24 x 7 for the last 6 years................i'm a mother
Littlekittylou wrote: » After reading this thread I am going to be very careful about how tired my Dr looks if I ever need to go to a hospital.
polydactyl wrote: » That's a very wise idea in fact as part of the strike last year we were encouraging patients to ask to highlight the problem as the she would have you believe that it's all sorted.
Jentle Grenade wrote: » NCHD working hours are frightening. My gf regularly works 50+ hour shifts and calls me to collect her as she's afraid to drive home (too tired to drive but not to attend to sick people!).
allthedoyles wrote: » whatever happened to the organisation of working time act 1997
Gringo180 wrote: » You said it. Some people take there work too serious and are like robots. There should be no need to work more than 45-50 hours a week and thats even pushing it a bit.
K4t wrote: » Worked in a hotel for years so I'm accustomed to insane shifts but a lot of the posters here seem almost proud of being exploited, someone mentioned Stockholm syndrome and they're not far off. However, there is a huge difference between working crazy hours in a relatively well paid job you like and a job you dislike or for minimum wage. This is very important here.
Venus In Furs wrote: » I know a guy who did hotel management for years and the hours he worked were just madness. He was well into it though - wanted to make a career of it. He runs a business in the industry now (co-owns a bar) and is doing really well. I think it's people who want to make a killing in business who can often be ok with such tough conditions. It's like they need to be pushed to their limits. I guess that's what it takes to make a business work.
seventeen sheep wrote: » Yep, how did you guess! And if anyone dared question their overtime not being approved, the managers would get all nasty and tell them that if they were efficient enough, they would be able to get their job done within working hours with no overtime. But if you ever did ... you'd only have more work piled on you ... so you'd still end up working overtime anyways! The more efficient you were, and the more work you got done in a ridiculously short space of time, the more work was heaped on you. So you'd never get out of working the overtime anyways! I escaped and am working in industry now. Out the door at 5.30 on the dot, and the working day feels so short to me now!
Littlekittylou wrote: » It is frightening. And also very harmful to her and her well being. The noble profession should be treated as such. Such working conditions are unfair and wrong. HSE takes the piss with nurses and Drs.
fasttalkerchat wrote: » I don't think its about being forced to work more, doctors make silly money, they could easily offer to take a pay cut in exchange for no overtime. I think its more about getting a certain number of hours experience, particularly for junior doctors.
polydactyl wrote: » You obv have no idea in reality. Junior docs only earn biggish wages due to the ridiculous number of hours they work. The strike last year we were begging to work less hours and therefore take a wage cut but have more if a life and be safer for patients but the HSE has not allowed it. It's people like you who actually believe what the HSE spin ppl say about the hours we work that makes it even harder to change to be honest. An intern salary is 31938 for standard hours week. Not the 100000 the HSE would have you believe. We could easily get enough training with 48 hours a week if it was done properly. No need for the 100 plus we sometimes are forced to work to keep the service running.
HandsomeDan wrote: » The lads braggin about mental hours are sad fúcks to be honest. Are you that weedy that you can't tell an abusive employer (who's laughin all the way to the bank btw) to go fúck themselves?
Streetwalker wrote: » Haven't done over 40 hours of work in a week since 2007 when my daughter was born. The last 7 years with her have been an amazing experience which I wouldn't have had time for if I took my work life as serious as some do. Yeah we have a small house and my car is a 2005 yoke but I could care less. Like I said work is way done my list of priorities nobody lay on their deathbed wishing they'd spent more time in the office.
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » It was a once off, your body is an amazing machine.
RDM_83 again wrote: » I've a question that reflects the cynic in me. I know this has been an issue for years but if its actually all about the patient safety as its often portrayed, why is it that the issue has only came to a head since the HSE have became worse about paying over time? If its about the patients why wasn't there these strikes in the celtic tiger years when there was tons of money around to solve the problem, I know there was threats back then but I don't think there was ever any carry through with them?
beks101 wrote: » I started work at 7.30am Friday morning. I've been on-shift for 18 hours. That's 18 hours with no lunch break, one coffee break where I got pulled back to my desk because of another work crisis, and two toilet breaks. I need sugar, alcohol, sleep and to punch a wall very hard. What's the longest shift you've ever worked and why?
ringadingding wrote: » Work in a kitchen, 2 x 16 hour shifts a week, 3 x 9 hour shifts. A 9 hour shift seems almost like part time these days. It's all in the mind In my opionin, but I see other chefs walk into work already defeated by the thoughts of it, and they never last the pace. As I'm getting older though, the shifts are getting tougher. For various reasons, my last time off that was longer than two days off together was this week last year. I have my full 25 days hols and about 40 days in lieu owed for this year.
polydactyl wrote: » God I must be doing 48x7 so cause I am a mother and a junior doctor
